We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …

: cousins with twin parents and adopted children. In line with most of the literature, we find no effect of mothers’ education … on children’s school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother’s education … small causal effects of parental education can be explained by detrimental effects of higher labour force participation …

’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …